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On Aug. 17, 2026, the U.S. Navy and RTX announced a massive contract for Tomahawk missiles. Manufactured by Raytheon, an RTX business, the Tomahawk is the Navy’s primary long-range munition… and the service is running out of them. To replenish its stockpiles, the Navy awarded Raytheon an unprecedented $22.9 billion contract.
Ukraine, overnight, launched one of its largest attacks of the entire war, as hundreds of drones targeted the Russian capital of Moscow.
According to DW.com, Ukraine launched a “sustained overnight assault,” which Russia says killed at least six people. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 201 of the 600 drones launched at Moscow were destroyed. The Russian regional governor, meanwhile, called it “one of the most massive drone attacks (against Moscow Oblast) in recent memory,” while the BBC called it the largest attack by Ukraine in 2026.
Switchblade Drone.
The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington is on the move. The supercarrier is en route to the Middle East, where it is set to relieve the USS Abraham Lincoln following one of the most strenuous carrier deployments in recent naval history.
The rotation will offer the Lincoln’s crew a route home after nearly nine months at sea.
USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63), and USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) cruise side-by-side in the Philippine Sea June 18, 2006, during exercise Valiant Shield 2006.
In recent years – and with increasing frequency in recent months – Russia has been either suspected or accused of numerous actions that violate the territorial integrity and threaten the security of NATO member nations. These include airspace violations, drone incursions, sabotaging undersea communications and data cables, and – most recently – landing a drone with a high-yield explosive warhead at a NATO heavy airlift terminal at Halle Airport in the East German city of Leipzig.
Moscow has now added a new act of aggression to its list of dirty tricks.
On Aug. 5, 2026, a federal court ruled that aspects of the 1934 National Firearms Act, including the registration of short-barreled rifles, shotguns, and silencers, was unconstitutional. The government was given a seven-day stay on the ruling to appeal, but the Department of Justice took no action.
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Just after midnight on Aug.
President Trump pulled the plug on the Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises with South Korea this week, directing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to “substantially reduce” the annual drills — and the foreign policy establishment is screaming. It shouldn’t. Trump is connecting dots that Washington has refused to connect for years.
Start with what Seoul just did to its own president.
This past May, a senior economist at the Russian state-run economic development institution, Vnesheconombank (VEB), told a gathering of prestigious academic and business figures that Russia will not be able to win the competition in the “war of attrition” with the West. VEB is a major institution within the Russian governmental structure that finances national projects.
His remarks to this closed forum were finally made public this past Friday. Within two days, he was removed from this position he had held for 12 years.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy confirmed on 15 August that his armed forces had successfully struck Russia’s Savasleyka military airbase and a key Roscosmos production facility in Samara Oblast. The attack was carried out with Ukraine’s own domestically produced FP-5 Flamingo missiles.
The Flamingo cruise missile is produced in Ukraine and was developed by the defense manufacturer Fire Point. It carries a 1,150 kg warhead and has a range of up to 3,000 kilometers.
In 1958, Fidel Castro was near the end of a yearslong battle to overthrow Cuban President Fulgencio Batista. Confident of soon seizing power, Castro was already looking ahead.
What he saw was a clash with a much larger foe.
“Once this war is over, I will start what for me is a much longer and bigger war, the war I am going to wage against the Americans,” Castro confided to a friend. “I realize this will be my true destiny.”
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While Castro detested the U.S.